Kathleen Sullivan Biography
Kathleen Sullivan is a television journalist from the United States. She began her career as a news anchor for CNN’s newly launched channel in 1980, and she has also worked for ABC News, CBS News, and The Huffington Post.
How old is Kathleen Sullivan?- Age
Kath is 70 years old as of May 2023. She was born on 17 May 1953, in Pasadena, California, United States of America.
Kathleen Sullivan Husband
She was married to Michael Kiner from 1988 to 1990.
Kathleen Sullivan CNN – Career
She began her career in local television before becoming CNN’s first female anchor in 1980. When she went to the Soviet Union to interview Russian cosmonauts for the Soviet Pre-Olympic event, she became the first American woman to broadcast live from the Soviet Union. Ted Turner chose Sullivan to help launch his Cable News Network in 1980. Moving to ABC News, she co-headlined ABC World News This Morning with Steve Bell in 1982, filled in for co-host Joan Lunden on Good Morning America, anchored ABC World News Saturday, and launched The Health Show, the first national-network health program. Sullivan covered party conventions, summits, state funerals, and the Olympics live during the 1980s.
She reported the list of royal marriages of Charles, Prince of Wales and Diana, Princess of Wales live from Buckingham Palace in London. Sullivan was the first woman to host an Olympic Games telecast in 1984. She worked as an in-studio anchor for ABC Olympic broadcasts during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo and the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. In 1987, Sullivan joined CBS News as co-anchor of CBS This Morning with Harry Smith. She was the program’s co-anchor from November 30, 1987, to February 23, 1990, when she left CBS News.
Sullivan was the only American journalist invited by President Ronald Reagan to a 1987 White House state luncheon honoring General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev and commemorating the Cold War’s end. Her coverage of Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina in 1989 earned her and CBS News an Emmy for Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Event.[cKathleen Sullivan hosted the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona for NBC’s Olympics Triplecast. She has also worked in radio, providing weekly commentary for ABC News and serving as a talk-show host on KABC and a drive-time anchor for the all-news station KFWB in Los Angeles from 1999 to 2000.
In the 1990s, Sullivan hosted two syndicated health shows. She was a spokesperson for Weight Watchers in television and magazine advertisements in the mid-1990s. Sullivan got an Emmy nomination for Best Sportscaster, a first for a woman, as well as two Emmy, nods for her work as anchor of E! News Daily, which she hosted after anchoring full-time coverage of the O. J. Simpson murder trial in 1995. She has been nominated for Emmy Awards in the categories of news, sports, and entertainment.
Sullivan is a member of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Advisory Board, a branch of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to which she was nominated in 2003 by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson. She has appeared as herself in a number of entertainment television programs, including the episode “Millions from Heaven” (1996) of the television sitcom series Roseanne (1988-1997), in which she reports on the list of Roseanne and The Conners characters who have won the lottery.
Kathleen Sullivan’s Net Worth
Sullivan has an estimated net worth of 5 million dollars as of 2023.